West African neighbours Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods as they seek to fund a new three-state union after leaving the larger regional economic bloc, they ...

West Africa is undergoing its own version of Brexit. By July Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger will have quit the 15-strong ...

France has handed over control to the Senegalese government of two military bases in Senegal’s capital, Dakar that it has ...

The three Sahelian states’ split from ECOWAS is reducing security cooperation at a time when West Africa is battling numerous ...

Vogue writer Ranyechi Udemezue shares the habits she learned from her grandmothers and how they inform her wellness routine ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A mission by a West African regional bloc sent to Guinea-Bissau to resolve a dispute over elections there has left the country, following threats by President Umaro Sissoco ...

An official says a Kenyan UN peacekeeper has been killed in an ambush in the far east of the Central African Republic.

Gustav Klimt's portrait of a West African prince is valued at €15 million and currently on offer at an art fair. But what's the story behind the painting? For the longest time, "Portrait of ...

The report warned that security forces in Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Benin are struggling to contain the escalating violence. Nigeria has emerged as the West African country most severely ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has reinforced its commitment to tackling the pressing security, economic, and political challenges threatening the bloc's unity and progress.

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